About two years after my car chase with Hulk Hogan, Golds Gym opened a new location in South Tampa. As part of the grand opening they had Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage show up to sign autographs. Of course I had to go.
It was a zoo. Wrestling is huge in Florida. The Hulk [...]
I’ve already told the story how I met President Clinton in 2000 while driving Presidential Motorcade. Well that was actually the second time I shook Clinton’s hand. Way back in July 1992 while attending The Ohio State University, a friend of mine showed up at my apartment with Special Guest passes to see then candidate [...]
It must have been July or August of 1994. I had just moved to Tampa Bay from Columbus in June. For a few days I had two friends down from Ohio. Being the host the of a new town, I took them for a drive of the area. Ryan was in the front seat and [...]
Here is another scan from 1994. One evening in Clearwater, Florida I bumped into Deney Terrio of TV’s disco show Dance Fever and got his autograph.
Sometime in November I got around to reading the Letter to the Shareholders for the Oakmark Equity and Income Fund. For about a year I had some money parked in this fund and I was up about $2,000. Not bad. But two lines in the Letter concerned me.
We do not make economic forecasts but we [...]
In an earlier post I mentioned my career of the early 1990s. I delivered for Pizza Hut. It was the best job I ever had that didn’t require a resume. And better than most of the jobs I’ve had since that did require one.
My first tour of duty was delivering pizzas in Columbus. My delivery [...]
Recently I read The Black Swan which exposed ideas of the fallacies of predictions. The Futurist is a story about a man in that profession that comes to the same conclusion.
The Futurist: A Novel by James P. Othmer is a fictional book that follows a futurist who has lost the faith. He no longer [...]
I’ve noticed over the past few years that whenever a barrel of oil hits a new price threshold that the DrudgeReport will put out a big red banner or siren announcing it. And then something happens almost without fail in the following two weeks. The price drops.
After seeing this pattern play out over and over, [...]
My prison sentence with the Glitter Gym has finally ended. The last month was unbearable. Expect to see a final Tales From the Glitter Gym installment soon.
Yesterday I found a Rust gym. I didn’t even think they existed anymore. Now when I use the term rust, what I really mean is it [...]
As if we needed reminded. I wonder if Buffalo has a sculpture of a 10 foot snow drift?
Angie’s Umbrella
